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The Inaugural Sir Robert Menzies Indigenous Mentoring Fellowship is open for applications as a result of a partnership between the Menzies Foundation and the Melbourne Indigenous Transition School (MITS). MITS opened earlier this year to help students from remote Indigenous communities transition to school and life in Melbourne. Each year 20 boys and girls will […]

If the definition of leadership is helping others achieve their potential, then there could be no better leader than 2003 Menzies Research Scholar in the Allied Health Sciences, Dr Kerry Proctor. It is a measure of the woman that she sees her current role as the Manager of an Indigenous Program with The Bouverie Centre

Professor Bill Rawlinson AM has been elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences for his work in translational research into cytomegalovirus (CMV) amongst other achievements. Senior Medical Virologist and 1991 Menzies Scholar in Medicine, Professor Rawlinson joins fellow Menzies Scholars, Professor Robyn O’Hehir AO, Professor Jamie Vandenberg and Professor Matthew

A smartphone app to aid parents in the early detection of Autism developed using research by Menzies Scholar, Dr Josephine Barbaro, who is working at the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre, is one of the 10 Australian finalists in the Google Impact Challenge. Members of the public are invited to vote for the not-for-profit project

Baroness Valerie Amos certainly left her mark when she visited Melbourne last week to deliver the Menzies Oration on Higher Education. Lady Amos, former UN Under-Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs, spoke of her experiences during seven visits to Syria on the Policy Shop podcast with University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor, Glyn Davis. She also spoke to The

This week at the Boston Conservatory, Harvard Menzies Scholar and composer, Nicholas Vines, will be central to Guerilla Opera’s new production of Loose, Wet and Perforated, having provided the music and libretto for its 10thanniversary production. The only RG Menzies Scholar to Harvard to complete a Music PhD in composition, Nicholas has an incredible CV,

The 2017 Menzies Scholar in Engineering is set to help bring cheaper, more efficient, zero-emission electricity to markets at home and abroad by combining business nous with his electrical engineering skills. Olsen Garland from the University of Newcastle will study a Master of Business Administration at the London Business School starting in 2017, with the

The Menzies Health Institute Queensland has marked its first birthday with a clean bill of health. The important partnership between Griffith University and the Menzies Foundation has resulted in the first health and medical research institute in Australia dedicated to allied health research and translation. At the first birthday event at Griffith University on the

Based on research by Dr Josie Barbaro, the ASDetect app which aids with the early identification of autism, has won the National iAward for Research and Development Project of the year. La Trobe University and Salesforce developed the free app based on research conducted at La Trobe’s Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre by 2006 Menzies

A physiotherapist who is studying the cultural differences in pain awareness, management and patient interactions, has been awarded the 2017 Sir Robert Menzies Research Scholarship in the Allied Health Sciences. The first Western Sydney University student to be awarded Menzies Scholarship, Bernadette Brady, will complete her PhD on the project “The inequities of chronic pain